Wednesday, October 12, 2011

MP3Ext is a shell extension for Windows Explorer that provides information such as play length, bitrate, sample-frequency, and the ID3-Tag of MP3 files in Explorer and tooltip. Additional information and the ability to edit them is offered through the file properties dialog box.

After installation, the file icons of MP3 files appear as shown below. Moving the mouse cursor over the icons display some vital statistics in a tooltip. It is possible to change the file icon to some other types but not much choices are available.

Under the file properties dialog box you can view and edit all meta data associated with the MP3 files. Apart from the typical ID3 data such as song title, artist, year and genre, you can add a bunch of new data such as names of composer, conductor, orchestra, website URL, copyright information, lyrics and multiple album cover. You can add several images to the MP3 file and swap among them. The chosen image appears as the file icon.